Hebrews 8:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 7:11 : 11 If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,
  • Heb 8:6 : 6 and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

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  • Heb 8:8-9
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    84%

    8For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,

    9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking `them' by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --

  • Heb 8:4-6
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    4for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,

    5who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --

    6and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

  • Heb 8:12-13
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    12because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --

    13in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.

  • Heb 7:15-22
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    15And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest,

    16who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

    17for He doth testify -- `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'

    18for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,

    19(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

    20And inasmuch as `it is' not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

    21and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

    22by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

  • Heb 7:11-13
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    11If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

    12for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,

    13for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,

  • Heb 9:15-18
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    15And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

    16for where a covenant `is', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

    17for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

    18whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

  • Heb 9:1
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    1It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,

  • Heb 8:2
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    2of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

  • Heb 9:6-9
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    6And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,

    7and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,

    8the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy `places', the first tabernacle having yet a standing;

    9which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

  • Heb 10:1-2
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    1For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

    2since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

  • Heb 7:28
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    28for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is' after the law `appointeth' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.

  • Heb 2:2
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    2for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

  • Heb 11:40
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    40God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

  • Heb 10:8-9
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    8saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered --

    9then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

  • Heb 4:8
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    8for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

  • Jer 31:31-32
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    31Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant,

    32Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Heb 12:17
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    17for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

  • Heb 4:5-6
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    5and in this `place' again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;'

    6since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory;

  • Gal 3:17
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    17and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

  • 2 Cor 3:7
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    7and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

  • Heb 10:4
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    4for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

  • Gal 2:18
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    18for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,